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The Christopher Dorner fan club is more mainstream than you might think

Online support for Dorner in the days since his rampage has crept out of the internet’s more extreme corners — where such perverse boosterism is commonplace — and into more mainstream venues. Dorner is now hailed as a kind of folk hero by some on the Chomsky-esque left and the Ron Paul right, who view the killer’s manifesto as an articulate indictment of the “police state” they have always opposed. …

Groups dedicated to Dorner on Facebook range from “We Support Christopher Dorner” to “We Are All Chris Dorner” to “Teamdorner” and others. The #DornerGang hashtag is alive and well on Twitter, as are multiple fever-swamp conspiracy theories about the circumstances of Dorner’s crimes and death. …

Salon’s Natasha Lennard has written a couple of stories sympathetic to Dorner (“Ex-cops sympathize with Dorner’s anger,” “Were Dorner’s complaints legitimate?”). Vice, in a story about whether or not Anonymous will retaliate after Dorner’s death, implicitly compared Dorner to anti-establishment heroes like Bradley Manning and Aaron Swartz, while acknowledging that “a murderous ex-cop is a lot harder to defend than these nonviolent liberators of information.”

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While I don’t like the direction the police have taken in militarizing, Dorner is no hero. It would be one thing to open fire on the police unknowingly when they fail to do due diligence and invade the wrong home. However, It is murder to set out to intentionally kill them as Dorner did.

The same people that are defending Dorner (some even saying that he’s innocent) are some of the same people that instantly think that Zimmerman killed Martin because he’s black and that instantly thought (and likely still think) that the Duke lacross team raped that woman.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity…

Unfortunately, the Dorners of this country give rise to the need for more police “militarization”. And just as unfortunately, it only takes afew Dorners to cause a widespread upgrade in police capacity.
The more capacity the police have, the easier it is to view them as overbearing and oppressive.
Not a great cycle to be in.

Unfortunately, the Dorners of this country give rise to the need for more police “militarization”. And just as unfortunately, it only takes afew Dorners to cause a widespread upgrade in police capacity.
The more capacity the police have, the easier it is to view them as overbearing and oppressive.
Not a great cycle to be in.

The article did a fairly good job of explaining things. The left just doesn’t like the police because criminals are an important part of their constituency.

In the case of the “Ron Paul right,” they sincerely believe the US is an authoritarian regime and that the police and military are tools by which the elites terrorize and pillage the common man. Unfortunately, there is a grain of truth to this view given what’s happened in the last decade or so, but they have held this view for much longer than that.

However, we have an case in Columbia, SC that merits some attention. Two cops arrested a young man at four on the morning in a popular nightspot for University of South Carolina students. What for, I don’t know. They clearly used excessive force in that arrest. As they were arresting him, his friend came out to find out to find what was going on and the police manhandled him and charged him with interfering. The entire incident was caught on camera. The police look very bad. The kicker is that the second young man is a lawyer. And, the police filed obviously false police reports.

Online support for Dorner in the days since his rampage has crept out of the internet’s more extreme corners — where such perverse boosterism is commonplace — and into more mainstream venues. Dorner is now hailed as a kind of folk hero by some on the Chomsky-esque left and the Ron Paul right,